He went on to belittle those Palestinians who complain of the high death toll in Gaza: “We are paying a price, but we remember our brothers in Algeria… In 1945, in a single day in Algeria, 45,000 Algerians died. In a single day. It wasn’t described in Algeria’s history as forsaking the blood of the Algerians, as some defeatists are describing today the number of Martyrs [in Gaza] as ‘trading with Palestinian blood and forsaking Palestinian blood.’”

In conclusion, Abu Zuhri made what some described as a Freudian slip, stating that “we are not leading our people to execution as we stand by and look on. No. We are leading them to death - I mean, to confrontation.”

In another interview, Abu Zuhri boasted over how effective the use of human shields had been in Gaza.

The following video published by the Israeli army speaks to the enormous difficulty in confronting an enemy that first provokes a military response, and then hides behind civilians:

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